Sustainable Development in Asia: Assessing the Impacts of Tech‐Industry, Poverty Alleviation, and Green Energy Technology Adoption on Environmental Pollution

ABSTRACT Environmental pollution has become a critical challenge to sustainable development in Asia, particularly in densely populated countries such as, China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Increasing pollution levels are a threat to the ecosystem and also risk derailing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG‐13. To fill this gap, this study examines the tech‐industry (TI, aligned with SDG‐9), poverty alleviation (PA, SDG‐1), renewable energy consumption (REC, SDG‐7), GDP growth rate (GDP gr ), urban population (URB), and environmental pollution (GHG) across these five economies from 1991 to 2022. The CS‐ARDL method indicates that tech‐industry, poverty alleviation, and renewable energy consumption significantly reduce environmental pollution and play a vital role in the attainment of SDG‐13. Further, the reliability of these outcomes was confirmed through various robust methods (MG, AMG, CCEMG, and DK), while the Dumitrescu‐Hurlin (DH) causality method outcomes indicate unidirectional causality from REC, PA, TI to GHG emission, whereas bi‐directional causality between GDP gr , UB to GHG. Further, critical findings provide vital policy insight that integrating tech‐industry products, poverty alleviation, and renewable energy consumption is crucial to reducing emissions and ensuring environmental sustainability. By aligning with the SDGs, particularly SDG‐13, these strategies provide actionable policy insights to effectively mitigate climate change and advance environmental sustainability by 2030.